This dynamic group, in the largest
Canadian urban area between Vancouver and Toronto, works together
with the NSS-affiliated Calgary
Space Frontier Society Chapter. Together they include four
members who get MMM
either directly from LRS or through Moon Society membership.

They have also identified an ideal
location in "Dinosaur Valley" near Drumheller,
Alberta, 90 miles NE of Calgary. Another project is creation of
simulated
lunar regolith. CSW wishes to partner with the Moon Society in a
Lunar Analog Research Station program. What they learn as they make
progress will benefit us substantially, and we have an open
invitation to participate. CSW and the Moon Society agreed on this
collaboration on October 8, 2006.

This is an analog outpost architectural option that we have
ourselves been considering. It has these two major advantages

1) Each module can be built/converted/outfitted where there is a
local cluster of volunteers to do so, avoiding expensive accumulative
transportation expenses.

2) the expandable complex of one-story horizontal modules, in
stark contrast to the double tuna-can Zubrin design, is
shielding-friendly, using sand bags or bags of mulch to provide
thermal equilibrium benefits (and serve as a model of radiation
shielding)

So this gives the Society, courtesy of our new partner chapter
affiliate, our first Lunar Analog Research Station, at least "under
construction."